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There are four standing committees. The Legislative Committee meets ongoing to address continually evolving policy and legislation through each session. The other three committees are activitated through a joint membership decision to address a particular issue or at the request of members with local a specific local issue in need of broader, regional advocacy. If the latter is the case, then there needs to be volunteers from the local community willing to serve on the appropriate committee as well as a consensus of agreement on the issue at the local level.

Board members self-assign themselves to a committee during their terms. The committees and assigned board members are:

Legislative:

Lobbying coordination, annual legislative/candidate forums, direct legislative contact, Legislative Agenda drafts for membership approval

Steve Adams, Twila Larson, Joe Blankenship, and Martin Olive

Business and Industry:

incentives, recruitment efforts, working with existing industries, agriculture

Bill Henderson, Russell Joyce, George Maher, Dale McAllister

Infrastructure

roads, bridges, high-speed Internet, rural and municipal water, lakes, housing

Keith Harlan, Clarence Mosier

Regional Development

marketing, entrepreneurship, workforce